Ferguson once 'turned up at Lee Sharpe's house to rip into him and Giggs'

Lee Sharpe has recalled a brutal telling off from Sir Alex Ferguson for himself and Ryan Giggs when they were caught about to go on a mid-week night out.

Both players were burgeoning teenage talents at the time trying to make a name for themselves in the Manchester United first team.

Sharpe and Giggs shared a house and had planned on going out in Stockport on a Thursday ahead of a game on a Sunday, but Ferguson caught wind and tore into them.

Sharpe told the UTD Podcast: 'That was Giggs getting me into trouble again, he always got me into trouble.

'I’ve bought a new build house in Altrincham, Giggy’s still living at home with his mum, there’s a few apprentices, Giggsy rings me up, "Oh, we’ll go out in Stockport, it’s Thursday night, we don’t play till Sunday, we’re fine".

'I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, come down’. So about 10 o clock, the manager knocks on the door we’re thinking it’s a taxi driver. Giggsy’s mate answers the door with the only two bottles of beer I’ve got left in the house from the weekend before.

'And one of the lads runs upstairs to me and says, 'You’ll never guess what, the manager’s downstairs'. I’m like, 'No he’s not, no he’s not'.

'So, I’m putting the final touches on my barnet, so I peer over the stairs, manager’s got the face on with bits of froth at the corners of his mouth, "Get these out the house I want a word with you and Giggs, get in that living room".

'So he’s getting everybody out the door, kicking them up the backside, smacking them round the back of the head, absolutely ripped into me and Giggsy. He said "You’re finished at this club, you can’t head it, you can’t pass it, you can’t run, letting your team-mates down, letting your mum and dad down, letting your family down".

Sharpe went on: 'And then he’s over to Giggsy doing the same, "And you, you’re letting your mum down, letting your family down, a married man out there with kids, supporting kids and you’re not bothered".

"And as he’s doing this I’ve got big double doors into the dining room and big sparkling drums that fill the dining room and a big St Bernard dog that’s trying to mount the gaffer for telling me off and he looks up and goes 'What the f*** are they? Drums. I’ll give you f****** drums'."

Ferguson's management of his youngsters ended up paying dividends as Sharpe went on to play 193 games before moving to Leeds and club legend Giggs a whopping 672.